Dr. Jodie Skillicorn: Healing depression without medication.
episode 156.
Hey, friends! Today the brilliant Dr. Jodie Skillicorn is hanging out with us to help me create a conversation on how you can holistically heal depression.
Dr. Skillicorn is a holistic, integrative psychiatrist and author of Healing Depression without Medications: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Balancing Mind, Body, and Soul. She integrates conventional medical training with evidence-based holistic methods that blend mindfulness-based psychotherapy with a variety of complementary, research-based modalities including breathwork, meditation, qi gong, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), nutrition, exercise, and nature at her virtual practice in Ohio.
Her passion is in guiding, supporting, and teaching her patients self-care techniques that help balance their bodies and minds, thus empowering them to take an active role in their unique healing journeys on the road to optimal health. These skills may also help in reducing and often eliminating the need for medications.
In today’s episode, we’re talking about…
How what Dr. Skillicorn was taught in med school was misleading
The impact psych meds have on the chemistry of your brain
The consequences of long-term antidepressant use
The power of placebo on depression
How Dr. Skillicorn’s approach to helping people heal differs from conventional psychiatry
The power of mindfulness on the brain
Why it’s important to move your body to discharge stress
The impact poor sleep has on your mental health
What Dr. Skillicorn believes drives increased depression
How a biochemical bandaid isn’t healing the wound
The role stress plays in inflammation
The importance of eating clean foods
What you can do to improve your depression holistically
…and so much more!
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Want more from Dr. Skillicorn?
Check out her website
Hangout with her on Instagram
Buy her book: Healing Depression Without Medication
Past episodes mentioned in today’s episode…
Episode 154. Dr. Joanna Moncrieff: Debunking the chemical imbalance theory
Episode 24. Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness with Robert Whitaker
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